You know that saying, “If you have something to fall back on, you’ll fall back.”
I have to call bullshit.
While show business is incredibly hard and demanding, if you have the courage and core to enter the field, I think you have the life skills to handle more than one thing!
It’s with 10 years of professional acting experience (something not a lot of career coaches and business mentors can offer), that I encourage you to make your own choices.
While I hope you’ll always make your living from acting, employment is often seasonal and episodic. How you build your empire (your life, wealth, and body of work) is both entirely up to you and not at all in your control. There are two ways of looking at this….
1. Balance is an illusion. Think of a side business (or another “competing interest”) as a teeter-totter with your acting career. Balance very rarely occurs or lasts. How often can two competing interests both be giving you 100 percent of what you need? Most often, you’ll be working on bringing one thing up, then immediately switching gears. It’s the reason the “Plan B” maxim exists.
However, you’re strong and smart. You can handle more than one
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